Example sentences of "still [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The existence of the A-X association may mean that training with A will allow the associatively activated representation of X to gain associative strength ; but as long as the c elements still gain strength , generalization to B will still occur and discrimination will not be improved .
2 He agreed , still seeing sport as ‘ an outlet ’ but ‘ in time , it just got serious . ’
3 The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things .
4 A century later , however , MacArthur was still given credit in South Africa for his contribution to that country 's economy .
5 But one might also ask , why is the idea of faking orgasm , which ought to be nonsense , still given space in modern and sophisticated women 's magazines ?
6 But she still made change .
7 One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver .
8 Matthew was still repairing damage from the wind-storm , cutting fallen trees into logs for the lodge 's many fireplaces .
9 Parliament can still influence policy making , acting during the formulation by way of various interest groups and committees and by general expression of opinion on the floor of the House .
10 On 7 June 1786 the society noted that it still lacked information on which to base any specific resolution for the encouragement of scientific farriery and the matter was put aside .
11 Bogdan still receives physiotherapy and is checked on a regular basis by Fred Nath at Middlesbrough General Hospital .
12 Erm still got power as a rate of doing work .
13 Still got condensation
14 Still got Christmas cake , so
15 If he has used it to swell his bank balance , it will be presumed that , in drawing on that balance , he has drawn out his own money before touching trust money ; if he has made an investment with trust money — even an investment which is itself a breach of trust — that investment is still trust property , to which the trustees ’ creditors have no claim .
16 All this , supported by literary evidence , suggests deterioration : bleaker diets ( but with the poor still demanding wheat ) , a decline in non-food purchasing , with standards probably lower than at any other time since the wars at the beginning of the eighteenth century .
17 Dolores was still eating pudding
18 Maybe they were still eating cabinet pudding in those days .
19 No Anthony 's still eating darling , right , now that word there says Doc , D O C which is the name of one of the dwarfs , okay , so in all them letters there is the name Doc , so you 've got to look for those three letters D O C alright , so you go along , no let me show you how to do it then .
20 If I can pick up with motion three eight zero which refers to the privatation of sat statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay the C E C would like reference back on this for the very basis that the point is they do still remain State benefits and those who qualify them , for them , are legally entitled to do so .
21 ‘ You 're still preaching death and destruction .
22 Market guru , Peter Thompson , now retired from Barclays de Zoete Wedd , but still forecasting market trends , has published a document predicting that the FT-SE 100 could be at 2,100 by the end of the month ( it closed at 2,233.9 , down 3.9 , yesterday ) .
23 Reilly 's last competitive game was against Donegal in the league this season , but he still plays club football with Kingscourt with whom he won seven cham
24 ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit .
25 Mercifully , human lice still abhor cleanliness . ’
26 ‘ He still understands French but can hardly speak it any longer , ’ said his sister-in-law , Edwige Zunarec .
27 Around 450,000 people are estimated to have been exposed to radioactive emissions from the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk ( which still produces plutonium and reprocesses waste ) in the 1940s and 50s .
28 One of the mills still produces snuff .
29 We conclude that minimal sedation with midazolam alone still produces hypoxia during ERCP in a substantial number of elderly patients .
30 From the modern to the antique , or almost ; China is still building steam locomotives , of the class Qian Jin .
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